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5 Rutgers Football Players Suspended Amid Criminal Charges

Five Rutgers University football players have been suspended following a violent two-week spree of home invasion robberies last spring and an unprovoked assault that resulted in a broken jaw for a student at the New Jersey school, authorities say. Checkey Beckford reports. (Published Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015)

A troubled former Rutgers football player fractured a woman's skull in a domestic attack in Tennessee earlier this week, then waited nearly an hour to call for help, according to court documents.

Nadir Barnwell, a New Jersey native who transferred to Tennessee Tech last year, was charged with attempted homicide after the attack on a footbridge in midtown Nashville early on Monday, according to a warrant for his arrest.

According to the warrant, Barnwell -- who had blood on him -- told responding medics that the woman was drunk and had fallen while he was attempting to carry her.

But surveillance footage from the scene told a different story, according to the document. Video captured at 2:51 a.m. allegedly showed the woman sitting on a bench as a shirtless and agitated Barnwell paced back and forth. At one point, the document states, the footballer could be seen picking her up, grabbing her by the throat and shaking her head.

Then, according to the warrant, he releases his grip and lets her fall; her head bounces off the ground. Barnwell then allegedly makes a phone call and tries to revive her. But when she doesn't come to, he picks her up and walks out of the surveillance camera's frame.

The warrant states that he didn't call for help until 3:39 a.m., 48 minutes after the altercation began.

Doctors treating the woman told detectives the woman had to undergo surgery to stop bleeding to her brain, according to the warrant. She also fractured her skull and may have broken her right arm.

He was also the player at the center of an NCAA investigation over whether Flood had improperly contacted a professor to help have grades improved. The university suspended Flood for three games in what became his final season with the team over the contact.